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What good does a temporary price reduction do for production workloads? I'm not even running evals on something that is not long-term sustainable.
by victor9000 1mo ago
What good does a temporary price reduction do for production workloads? I'm not even running evals on something that is not long-term sustainable.
- eddythompson80 1mo agoDo you have guarantees that the price of the model you’re using in production today won’t increase in the future?
- victor9000 1mo agoYes, they haven't advertised a pending price jump in the near future.
- notatoad 1mo agoif you're picking AI models for long-term sustainability you're doing it wrong. There's really no point in locking in model choice for anything more than a month or two these days.
- markerz 1mo agoWhat about companies purchasing enterprise contracts? Most contracts are minimum 12 months. At a minimum, to secure enteprise requirements like zero-data retention, you'll need to lock into a single provider. These price reductions are mostly targeted towards self-serve customers on individual or small team plans, where individual choice matters and the friction of changing models/providers is low.
- bluebands 1mo agoenterprises usually a. just get chatgpt/claude enterprise, or b. just pay the aws bedrock or azure bill neither of these entail model lock-in
- notatoad 1mo agoif you've got an enterprise contract, doesn't that include pricing? a temporary discount on the base API rate probably isn't super relevant to that.
- markerz 1mo agoExactly my and top commenter's point. "Temporary price reduction" and "production workloads" are two different worlds. I'm against the idea that "there's really no point in locking in model choice for anything more than a month or two these days". At a minimum, enterprises are going to lock in a provider for a year due to enterprise contracts, which restricts their model choices. You sign for Anthropic, but now OpenAI models are "better". Or, you signed for AWS Bedrock: Oh no, you don't have access to deepseek-v4 because they're behind.
- oh_no 1mo agowhat? enterprise LLM API contracts pay listed model rates. how could they lock you into pricing on models that they've not developed yet? enterprise SaaS LLM calls do lock in rates but don't lock in models for similar reasons to the above.
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